Multi-Dimensional Measurement And Influencing Factors Of Children’s Health Poverty In China

Since the elimination of absolute poverty in China,solving the relative poverty of children has become the focus and difficulty of China’s poverty alleviation strategy.Providing necessary development conditions for children in each critical period will not only help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty,but also provide an important reserve of human resources for China’s sustainable development.The incidence of multi-dimensional poverty of children is higher than that of adults.Its poverty is not only reflected in material aspects,but also in the lack of resources in nutrition,health,medical care and other aspects.It can be seen that the problem of child poverty should be viewed from multiple perspectives and solved from multiple aspects.Healthy physique is an important basis for children’s growth and development.Therefore,this paper observes the current situation of children’s health poverty in China from a multidimensional perspective,formulates multidimensional indicators of health poverty,analyzes the key causes of poverty,and puts forward more targeted and effective policies and measures,which has important practical significance for alleviating children’s health poverty and consolidating the results of poverty eradication.On the basis of referring to the relevant literature on health poverty and child poverty,combining with the practical requirements of the Outline for the Development of Children in China(2021-2030),and taking into account the availability of the existing Chinese Family Tracking Survey(CFPS)database,this paper selects seven indicators from four dimensions of income,health endowment,health environment,and health security,so as to build an indicator measurement system for children’s health poverty in China,The current situation of children’s health poverty is described statistically;Secondly,on the basis of the established indicator system on children’s health poverty,the indicators under the four dimensions of income,health endowment,health environment and health security are weighted by the equal weight method,and the double critical value method is used to measure children’s health poverty by using the CFPS database in 2016 and 2018 respectively,to analyze the poverty contribution rate of each indicator,and according to the children’s region,registered residence registration Gender and age demographic characteristics were used to analyze the heterogeneity of their health poverty status and the contribution rate of each indicator to health poverty;Finally,this paper uses Probit model and Logit model to analyze the influencing factors of children’s health poverty from the perspective of family,community and government.The study found that: first,in general,the incidence of children’s health poverty and the health poverty index in 2016 were higher than the measured results in 2018.It can be seen that the situation of children’s health poverty in China has improved,but the average deprivation intensity has a small difference between two years,which also shows the difficulty of children’s health poverty alleviation task;Secondly,by decomposing the four dimensions of children’s health poverty,it can be seen that the probability of occurrence of health poverty under the dimensions of health endowment is relatively high,and the degree of children’s health poverty under the dimensions of health endowment is relatively serious,and it can be seen from the decomposing indicators that children’s nutrition level,development process,health system guarantee Family per capita income is the target of alleviating children’s health and poverty;Thirdly,according to the heterogeneity of region,gender,registered residence registration and age,the health poverty of girls,agricultural household registration and young children in western China is more serious;Finally,in terms of poverty factors,parents’ health behavior is the key factor affecting children’s health poverty.The more scientific parents’ health behavior and the more correct children’s medical behavior are,the lower the probability of children falling into health poverty in China.Based on the above research results,this paper puts forward targeted suggestions from the perspective of family,government and community to alleviate children’s health poverty: the family should establish a guiding role and improve health ability;The government strengthens the supply of resources and provides health services;The community gathers health resources and creates a healthy environment.